Chapter 154: The Ghost Lingers
Jiang Ya's first glance at Jiang Li was still that kind of prickly look, but it was changed to a smiling face in an instant, and the smile pretended to be intimate. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The person who came turned out to be Jiang Ya! Jiang Li smiled in a daze, and then relieved. Ignoring Jiang Ya's pretended intimacy.
With Jiang Li's mother's previous letters in her hand, and she could still know the affairs of the Jiang family in detail, she should have thought that it was Jiang Ya.
On the way here, Jiang Ju said that Fan Sicheng came to Jiangnan, and Jiang Ya entered Fan's house for a while, presumably Fan Sicheng is also the same as his second brother to Jiang Jun, from the beginning of his indifference to Jiang Ya, and gradually fell in love with each other, it is not uncommon to come to Jiangnan this time to bring Jiang Ya.
That time in Xiushan, Yuan Bi didn't mention that Jiang Ya and Fan Sicheng came to Jiangnan, and Jiang Li didn't ask much at that time. didn't ask much, it was because she didn't care about whether her sixth sister was doing well in the Fan family, in short, she felt that the affairs of the Fan family had nothing to do with her.
However, since Jiang Ya took the name of her Jiang Li to recognize her uncle, this is her business.
Jiang Li looked at Jiang Ya coldly, and before he could open his mouth to ask, Jiang Ya left her seat, bowed to Mei Yuanshan and his wife, raised her eyes and smiled, Jiang Ya didn't have a panicked look on her face.
After she finished worshipping, she said: "Uncle and aunt, please listen to me: Jiang Li and I are cousins, my name is Jiang Ya, and I am her sixth sister." Her uncle, of course, should also be regarded as my own uncle. This time, I came to Jiangnan with my mother-in-law and husband, thinking that I didn't have a family in the south, so I rushed to recognize my relatives as soon as I arrived at the mansion. At that time, as soon as my aunt heard that I was from Jiang's house in the capital, she treated me as Jiang Li, and others said that I looked a little similar to Jiang Li's sister, and I was also joking for a while, and I just wanted to joke with you. Even if you don't break it down today, I was going to explain it to you clearly. ”
After speaking, he simply knelt down: "After all, it's still my fault to hide my true identity from my elders, Jiang Ya gave you a gift." In the final analysis, I also want to climb a family, and I don't have bad intentions. Please forgive Jiang Ya for being rude for a while! ”
Jiang Li didn't say a word, she admitted it. This not only surprised Jiang Li, but also had to praise her for being smart! And no matter whether she Jiang Ya has bad intentions to come to recognize her relatives under her name, at least the Mei family has not lost anything because of her, and she does have a cousin relationship with Jiang Li, so it doesn't seem so abrupt to catch up with the Mei family to recognize an uncle.
What a trick to catch people! Jiang Li found that he couldn't blame her anymore?
Mei Yuanshan and his wife exchanged glances, Jiang Ya took the initiative to admit it, and they didn't seem to be able to blame a junior again. Besides, Mrs. Mei picked up words from Jiang Ya's words.
As far as she knew, the people living next to the mansion were all relatives of the official family, and Mrs. Mei became suspicious when Jiang Ya left the address, so she asked with a smile: "So it's still not right for us, you said that you brought a lot of people that day, I didn't ask who the people were with you, you must know that you are here with your husband's family, and you should invite them to come and sit." I don't know, what is Jiang Liu's husband's family? ”
Jiang Ya replied indifferently: "The husband's surname is Fan, and he is a newly transferred imperial envoy from the capital. As soon as he came to the official office, he was too busy to get out, saying that he was investigating several new cases of smuggling weapons in Jiangnan recently. My mother-in-law and I lived next to the government office and took care of his daily life nearby. ”
Jiang Ya's words reminded Mrs. Mei of the recent business incidents, and her face immediately changed.
It turned out that although the Mei family was one of the few wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan, the more this was the case, the more taboo they were against the government. In addition, something has happened recently - the original imperial court controlled the right to buy and sell important materials, and all the buying and selling of these materials had to be approved, and it was easy not to let the officials under them engage in personal fraud. It's just that once these approval powers fall into the hands of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, they become a means of their corruption. They called these approvals citations and privately put them up for public auction.
Just as Jiang Li runs an auction business in Mei Xianju in Xiushan, Mei Yuanshan also has several commercial buildings in Jiangnan. But Mei Yuanshan is not as lucky as Jiang Li, recently there are several commercial buildings in his hands because they are involved in pig iron and ordnance, and they are being sealed by the government, and the sealed commercial buildings are investigating the matter of his sea transport ship.
The Mei family's maritime merchant ships have been in action for many years, selling silk and satin overseas every year, and when they come back, they bring some novel imported goods, and the profits are quite amazing.
Mei Yuanshan has put a lot of effort into the fleet at sea, and although the major national laws are not violated, it is natural that all fleets going overseas will inevitably carry some smuggled goods in and out.
Since I heard that his fleet had been found, every time the goods came and went in the past few months, I had to check the accounts again, for fear that the government would find out some tricks. Therefore, there is a special situation of a family of three in the study at the beginning.
When she heard Jiang Ya's self-reported details of her husband's family, Mrs. Mei was still taken aback: Isn't the imperial envoy from the capital the chief judge who investigated this case? That's worth it!
So he immediately changed his face, threw a look at his husband, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Jiang Ya and said, "It's all a family, besides, Miss Jiang Liu's husband is still such a big Beijing official, we can't catch up with it." Since you don't dislike our merchant's family with a copper smell, and you are willing to put down your body to intersect with our relatives, we can't ask for it, and now you have taken the initiative to explain it clearly, why blame the reason. Isn't it, sir? ”
Mrs. May was full of kind words as she helped people up, and she did not forget to turn her head to look at her husband and son.
It was also in the past few days that Jiang Li learned from Mei Yingxue's mouth that Mrs. Mei's surname was Pang and she was not Mei Zixuan and Mei Yingxue's biological mother. Pang Zi used to be just Mrs. Mei's dowry girl, she was young and couldn't understand piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she had a good calculation, and was later taken in by Mei Yuanshan as a concubine. Mrs. May died of illness a few years ago, and she was corrected.
Mei Zixuan was obviously disgusted by Mrs. Mei's excessive self-deprecation and excessive enthusiasm for Jiang Ya, only to see him frown, and turned to the side in embarrassment, not agreeing with his mother's words.
Mei Yuanshan bowed slightly, with a magnanimous appearance, he couldn't tell whether he liked or hated Jiang Ya, he didn't move when he sat down, and he didn't take the initiative to make friends, but he nodded to Jiang Li and motioned to sit next to him.
This is my uncle! Although there is no need to say anything, they have already expressed their attitude towards Jiang Li, and they are the closest relatives who are related by blood. Jiang Li's heart was hot, and he pulled Mei Yingxue to sit beside Mei Yuanshan.
Mrs. Mei pulled Jiang Ya to sit beside her, holding her hand affectionately, as if she had forgotten Jiang Li's existence. However, Mrs. Mei's question made Jiang Ya embarrassed.
"Since Miss Jiang Liu came with her mother-in-law, she will invite her mother-in-law to come and sit down another day, and we will also recognize her relatives." Although he directly ignored Jiang Li, a genuine relative, and directly called Jiang Ya's mother-in-law, it was normal. Jiang Ya smiled and should be.
The second sentence came: "Haven't asked the sixth girl when she got married?" ”
Jiang Ya was stunned. Fan Sicheng and Jiang Li were engaged in the front, and she was later forced into the door of the Fan family with death, but she was quietly carried in as a concubine, and the mother and son of the Fan family also asked Jiang Li's opinion in person. And what others don't know is that until now, she and Fan Sicheng have not had a round house.
Before she came, she didn't expect to see Jiang Li today, as for what to say after being exposed, it was a rhetoric that someone had prepared for her in advance. She naturally came to recognize her relatives for other purposes, and she was indeed instructed by others. Otherwise, she didn't want to see Jiang Li appear in front of her again.
Before she came, she even kept hoping that Jiang Li had died on the way to Jiangnan, only in this way could she be completely at ease and wait to receive everything from Jiang Li.
The moment she saw Jiang Li, Jiang Ya's eyes were fierce, thinking: Why did she still get to Jiangnan? Why isn't he dead yet? What a ghost!
Mrs. Mei may have asked unintentionally, but Jiang Ya didn't want to answer, and it took a long time for her to say: "······"